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- The co-founder of the popular Geekbench app has claimed that Xiaomi is throttling performance.
- Xiaomi seems to be throttling benchmark apps disguised as games but running them at full speed otherwise.
Samsung was in the news recently after it emerged that the company was forcibly throttling a variety of games but not slowing down benchmark apps. This came a year after OnePlus was found to be doing something similar, and now it looks like Xiaomi could be joining the party too.
Geekbench co-founder John Poole claimed on Twitter that Xiaomi is also throttling performance based on app names. More specifically, he found that disguising the Geekbench benchmarking app as the popular Fortnite game resulted in single-core performance scores dropping by a massive 30%. Meanwhile, multi-core scores apparently dropped by 15%.